ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the literary production of the Spanish Caribbean in conversation with the French and Anglo Caribbean, paying particular attention to specific threads of literature of resistance. It focuses on texts that engage racial and ethnic debates in the definition of a Caribbean subject and relates with colonial conceptualizations of the Caribbean. The chapter also focuses on the postcolonial and neocolonial definitions of Caribbeanness through the articulation of a Caribbean geopolitical imaginary. It reviews a series of texts in which gender and sexuality are used to index a new Caribbeanness that does not necessarily depend on sovereignty to define its own uniqueness or specificity. The chapter discusses how the use of a comparative framework to study the Anglo, Spanish, and French Caribbean is crucial to identify the specific discourses about colonialism and resistance that have been developed in the region from the 1930s to the present.
